Translations:Abraham/8/en

The Bible first depicts Abraham and his family as citizens of the great city of Ur of the Chaldees—the flourishing cultural, political and economic center of the literate and technologically advanced Sumerian civilization. Sir Charles Leonard Woolley, head of a British-American team of archaeologists that excavated Ur shortly after World War I, wrote, “We must revise considerably our ideas of the Hebrew patriarch when we learn that his earlier years were spent in such sophisticated surroundings; he was the citizen of a great city and inherited the traditions of an ancient and highly organized civilization.”